P.A.G.E. Analysis of Professional Journal Article Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE 1a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that sums up its purpose. Complementing the aims of science teachers, curriculum developers systematically attempt to identify research findings they can incorporate in materials that will facilitate connections between teachers, the curriculum, and students
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose? Basically this articles purpose is to learn about research findings that can be connected to teachers and students.
AUDIENCE 2a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that indicates its audience. Science teachers continuously strive to improve their instructional practices to enhance student learning.
2b. In your own words, who is the audience? The audience in this article is the students and teachers.
GENRE 3a. Evidence – What counts as evidence in this article? How do you know? There are multiple diagrams, charts, and statistics located in this article.
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another. Multiple sections in this article, very organized and they flow perfectly from paragraph to paragraph.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article).
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example. Since this article is about science, there is a lot of passive voice like “research was conducted” (For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)
Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
1a. Please write at least one sentence from your article
that sums up its purpose.
Complementing the aims of science teachers, curriculum developers systematically attempt to identify research findings they can incorporate in materials that will facilitate connections between teachers, the curriculum, and students
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose?
Basically this articles purpose is to learn about research findings that can be connected to teachers and students.
AUDIENCE
2a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that indicates its audience.
Science teachers continuously strive to improve their instructional practices to enhance student learning.
2b. In your own words, who is the audience?
The audience in this article is the students and teachers.
GENRE
3a. Evidence – What counts as evidence in this article?
How do you know?
There are multiple diagrams, charts, and statistics located in this article.
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
Multiple sections in this article, very organized and they flow perfectly from paragraph to paragraph.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article).
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
Since this article is about science, there is a lot of passive voice like “research was conducted”
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)